Some of the earlier descriptions are spot on. Another way of looking at Net neutrality is think of the internet as a utility like electricity. Net neutrality means a free and open internet....an analogy would be electricity. If you pay your electric bill (internet service), you flip a light switch, a light comes on (you pay your internet bill you get internet at whatever speed you choose); but your refrigerator, your tv, hair dryer, etc all turn on simply by paying this one electric bill (you have access to every website). Doing away with net neutrality would be like the electric company saying, "okay, you pay us $40 per month just to have electricity at your house, if you want your fridge to run, it's an extra $5.99, hair dryer is $0.49, TV is an extra $7.99...so on and so forth. If you want internet, you pay a fee. If you want to run netflix, you pay netflix $10.99/month, but to have internet ran for the service at that streaming speed, you'll have to pay extra. Different ISPs will have different "packages" I would imagine like Dish or DirectTV have "basic packages" and anything extra will be additional money. So, if you want e-mail or access to search engines, that's a certain amount each month. If you want to stream video from Youtube, that's extra charge, if you want access to online banking/online news/hawgsports it's going to be extra money.
Basically, the corporations owners/CEOs (insert any other greedy mother-f*cker here), want to make more, while providing fewer services for one monthly price. The big cable companies have been throwing money at politicians to have this done, but now that the bought and paid for congresspeople who have taken the bulk of the money are making decisions/laws/making appointments (FCC Chair, etc), the cable companies have their chance to make this happen....and we are going to be the ones who have to pay for it.
I know this isn't the best analogy...but it's the easiest way I can explain it.
Right now if you pay your water bill, you get water to all your sinks, fridge, dish washer, washing machine. Doing away with net neutrality would be like the water company charging you $30/month just to have "access" to water at your house, then charging additional money for each appliance ran. It's BS.
I know a lot of politicians form all parties accept money/bribes for certain laws to be made/passed; but right now there are a LOT of people in the pockets of billionaire/corporation owners in power who want more handouts from those billionaires...so they are passing tax breaks for them, chipping away at net neutrality, chipping away at healthcare, refusing to raise minimum wage to a living wage while charging more and more for basic needs/goods, etc...all so a handful of people can have more houses, private jets, yachts, and private club memberships while the rest of us are left paying for it all.
We are beginning to lose our democracy, we are turning into a kleptocracy.
For those of you who don't know dictionary.com:
"kleptocracy
[klep-tok-ruh-see]
noun, plural kleptocracies.
1.
a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves."
Okay. I'm done. Getting too worked up.
